Photos of Hezbollah, Iranian leaders on cell phone led to Brown professor's deportation

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : For U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at the airport to follow a court order, Wallace said, it must receive the order from its counsel or from the Boston Field Office.
58% : She spoke to TSA agents, a Delta employee and eventually Massachusetts State Police, who redirected her to CBP.
57% : U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) canceled a visa for the professor after agents discovered the photos although she claimed they were on her phone for religious reasons, according to court documents filed on Monday.
56% : By the time Saunders spoke to someone at CBP, she was told Alawieh's flight had departed.
50% : Alawieh is a Lebanese citizen and had a visa to work in the U.S. While Alawieh was detained, an agent with CBP interrogated her about her ties to the Middle East, telling her that a review of her phone found messages including photos of Hezbollah martyrs and its leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
50% : It was after that interview that CBP canceled Alawieh's visa, finding she was inadmissible to the U.S. as an "immigrant without a valid and unexpired immigrant document" whose "true intentions could not be determined due to derogatory information discovered during the inspection process.
46% : Upon landing in the U.S., Alawieh, an assistant professor of medicine and clinician educator, was detained by CBP.
45% : In a response to Chehab's petition filed Monday morning, the U.S. Attorney's office for Massachusetts said her claims were moot because Alawieh was no longer in the custody of CBP.

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